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Miracles: Handle with care
“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” That jarring statement used to hang in Chicago’s famed City News Bureau as an admonishment to reporters. In the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago journalism, it simply meant to verify all … Continue reading
Build trust through the reporting process
Reporting stories from project sites can be a wonderful trust builder among organizations and their prayer and financial partners. This requires care, because it’s just as easy to violate that trust if the people you interview or photograph are surprised … Continue reading
How to remove geotags from cellphone photos
Photos from sensitive places pose a challenge in telling stories. While conversations often center on creative ways to shoot a photo, or how to obscure someone’s face or location, one important factor tends to be neglected. Digital photos have invisible … Continue reading
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Trust the power of discovery
In Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide, Emmy-winning TV documentary producer Stanley Nelson writes: Saying too much — especially in the film’s narration — ruins the audience’s sense of discovery. The experience of watching a film should be making … Continue reading
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Where a monster movie breaks bad
My wife and I went to see “Jurassic World” last night because … well, we’re still not sure why. Maybe because we had a Groupon. Anyway, if you like special effects, dinosaurs, awful writing and wooden acting, then this is … Continue reading
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Stop and listen
At the ministry where I work, one of our leaders talked last week about quieting ourselves so we can hear God’s voice – and how quieting ourselves is so rare in our culture today. It made me think of Gene Weingarten’s … Continue reading
Says Who?
At the missions organization where I work, we’re moving toward using “says” rather than “said” most of the time for attribution in stories. The reason is part of our gradual change in voice. “Says” helps build drama. It helps build … Continue reading
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